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Enchanted Night - Selected Tales by Miklos Banffy; Len Rix (Translator)
Category: Short Stories
Transporting stories of intrigue, superstition and rivalry from a European master, in English for the first time.
The Remarkable Mrs. Anderson by Miklos Banffy; Thomas Sneddon (Translator)
Category: Fiction
When a priceless Leonardo is stolen from the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, the Hungarian government tries to hush things up and the police show themselves to be completely clueless. Thank goodness for Milla Anderson! A gifted reporter for one of Budapest's daily newspapers, she picks up the trail in Pal ...Show more
The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volume I - They Were Counted by Miklos Banffy; Hugh Thomas (Introduction by); Patrick Thursfield (Translator); Katalin Banffy-Jelen (Translator)
Category: Classic | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
**Washington Post Best Books of 2013**The celebrated TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY by Count Mikl s B nffy is a stunning historical epic set in the lost world of the Hungarian aristocracy just before World War I. Written in the 1930s and first discovered by the English-speaking world after the fall of communism ...Show more
The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volumes II and III - They Were Found Wanting, They Were Divided by Miklos Banffy; Hugh Thomas (Introduction by); Patrick Thursfield (Translator); Katalin Banffy-Jelen (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
**Washington Post Best Books of 2013**The celebrated TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY by Count Mikl s B nffy is a stunning historical epic set in the lost world of the Hungarian aristocracy just before World War I. Written in the 1930s and first discovered by the English-speaking world after the fall of communism ...Show more
They Were Counted by Miklos BANFFY
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Writing on the Wall Ser.
Shooting parties in great country houses, turbulent scenes in parliament, and the luxury life in Budapest provide the backdrop for this gripping, prescient novel, forming a chilling indictment of upper-class frivolity and political folly, in which good manners cloak indifference and brutality. Abady bec ...Show more
They Were Divided: The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volume III by Miklos Banffy
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Writing on the Wall Ser.
In the sequel to They Were Counted, Balint Abady is forced to part from the beautiful and unhappily married Adrienne Uzdy. Gyeroffy is rapidly heading for self-destruction through drink and his own fecklessness. The politicians, quarrelling among themselves and stubbornly ignoring their countrymen's re ...Show more
They Were Found Wanting by Miklos BANFFY
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Writing on the Wall Ser.
They Were Divided reflects the rapidly disintegrating course of events in central Europe on the eve of WWI. A literary masterpiece, in the foreground it tells the story of Balint and his flawed cousin, Laszlo Gyeroffy, with humor and bittersweet nostalgia for a paradise lost through folly. In the backgr ...Show more
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